The use of MMR, diversity-based reranking for reordering documents and producing summaries
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Beyond independent relevance: methods and evaluation metrics for subtopic retrieval
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Why we search: visualizing and predicting user behavior
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Proceedings of the Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining
Understanding user's query intent with wikipedia
Proceedings of the 18th international conference on World wide web
Understanding temporal query dynamics
Proceedings of the fourth ACM international conference on Web search and data mining
CrowdTiles: presenting crowd-based information for event-driven information needs
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
The impact of temporal intent variability on diversity evaluation
ECIR'13 Proceedings of the 35th European conference on Advances in Information Retrieval
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Time is often important for understanding user intent during search activity, especially for information needs related to event-driven topics. Diversity for multi-faceted information needs ensures that ranked documents optimally cover multiple facets when a user's intent is uncertain. Effective diversity is reliant on methods to (i) discover and represent facets, and (ii) determine how likely each facet is the user's intent (i.e., its popularity). Past work has developed several techniques addressing these issues, however, they have concentrated on static approaches which do not consider the temporal nature of new and evolving intents and their popularity. In many cases, what a user expects may change dramatically over time as events develop. In this work we study the temporal variance of search intents for event-driven information needs using Wikipedia. First, we model intents based upon the structure represented by the section hierarchy of Wikipedia articles closely related to the information need. Using this technique, we investigate whether temporal changes in the content structure, i.e. in a section's text, reflect the temporal popularity of the intent. We map intents taken from a query-log (as ground-truth) to Wikipedia article sections and found that a large proportion are indeed reflected in topic-related article structure. By correlating the change activity of each section with the use of the intent query over time, we found that section change activity does reflect temporal popularity of many intents. Furthermore, we show that popularity between intents changes over time for event-driven topics.